[BITList] 1895 - 8th GRADE EXAM]

[franka]

Hugh,
Not sure but think the leaving age a couple of years before I left 
school was 12 which would have meant I suppose that Year 8 would have been
their final year, better than what was offered in England at the time it 
would seem, I know judging on the results one observes that the 
education standards here have certainly dropped, and not likely improve 
in a hurry working on the theory that one can only make better tools 
with better tools
frank

  wrote:
> Frank,
> I had a look on Snopes, and according to them the exam text is 
> genuine, but they have grave reservations about the comment on it, eg, 
> present day 8th Graders would certainly fail it, not having studied 
> that particular curriculum with its narrow range (their comment).  For 
> myself, I've no way of comparing, since I don't know what to 
> standard 8th Grade refers.  My School Report book states : " .... 
> provision is made for 10 stages through the Junior and Senior 
> Divisions."  Closer examination, and recollection of teachers' 
> names, indicates I was in 7 classes in Primary School, age 5 to 11.
> Hugh.
>
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